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Most of this fall's successful candidates for congress, and especially for the Senate, stayed near the middle of the road and addressed the Social Issue firmly but without hysteria. Adlai Stevenson III pinned an American flag to his lapel, reminded voters of his sponsorship of anti-crime bills, and lined up the chief prosecutor of the Chicago Seven as his co-chairman. By contrast, his opponent, Republican Senator Smith, ran a smear campaign and refused to reject the support of the John Birch Society. California dumped flamboyant ultra-conservative Max Rafferty and George Murphy in favor of Riles Wilson...
...local considerations and national ones, the varying perception of voters in diverse regions. As the personality sketches on these and the following pages show, they also produced engaging winners who may be starting significant careers in the U.S. Senate: New York's James Buckley, Tennessee's William Brock, Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III, California's John Tunney...
...contrast, nothing worked right for the Republicans in Illinois, where Senator Ralph Tyler Smith lost badly to Adlai Stevenson. "I thought I had my finger on the people's pulse," Smith lamented, "but I obviously miscalculated. I just must have misread what people were really concerned about." Actually, Smith had little chance, regardless of his strategy. The Stevenson name and stolid, sincere persona were just too potent for the Republican state legislator who had been appointed to fill out Everett Dirksen's unexpired term...
THERE is a portentous difference between Adlai Ewing ("Bear") Stevenson III and his famous father who affectionately gave him the animal nickname: the father, to many, had the look of a winner but lost, while the son often appears to plod through campaigns and wins...
...member of a prestigious Chicago law firm before entering politics. It was what he had been waiting for. He was the only one of his father's three sons who chose to follow him, and he made his decision early. In 1948, when he was 17, young Adlai chauffeured the older Stevenson-in a battered Chevrolet-along the campaign trail. In good political form, however, he now disclaims presidential ambitions for himself. But he adds: "I do have a son coming along. Adlai the Next we call him, and I wouldn't mind seeing him President...